- Quick specs
- Price: Free to try (60-day trial); $40.00 to buy
- Operating system: Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: January 23, 2003
- Total Downloads: 1,611,065
- Downloads last week: 95,047
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A newer version of Avast! 4 Professional Edition is available.
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 450 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Avast Professional Edition skillfully scans your PC and several programs for viruses, although configuring it is not for the faint of heart.
Immediately after installation, the program asks if you want to schedule an antivirus scan of your local hard drives at system start. You'll notice two icons in your system tray after installing Avast: one to configure the functions and another to activate the virus recovery database.
Well-designed, Avast scans executables, inbound and outbound e-mails, and P2P programs such as Kazaa, Limewire, and Morpheus. Instant messages received from several messenger programs are inspected for harmful viruses as well. The program was able to block URLs and common file operations such as renaming and deleting. We appreciated the sensitivity adjusters to get protection to desired levels including normal, high, or customized.
We must say this application did slow down our system while surfing and using other programs. Many of its configurations require intermediate know-how or better. Fortunately, it has a generous 60-day trial. Don't let the steep learning curve turn you off; Avast safeguards your system at optimum levels.
Publisher's description
From Alwil Software :From the developer: "avast! Professional Edition is a complete ICSA certified antivirus package for small office home office use - SOHO. avast! obtained VB100% award in June 2002 Virus Bulletin comparative review under Windows XP Pro and in November 2002 issue under Windows 2000 Advanced Server.
"avast! Professional Edition includes the following components: On Demand Scanner - with two user interfaces: Skinnable Simple Interface - just select what do you want to scan in which way and press the Play button. Enhanced User Interface - Outlook like UI allows user to set any feature of avast!, prepare and run tasks, store and check task's results. On Access Scanner - resident scanning of all files being opened, read and written and behavior blocker monitoring dangerous actions of viruses or even users them self. E-mail scanner easily integrates with most mail clients and it checks both incoming and outgoing mails, it provides heuristic analysis of mail content to protect against new Worms. Script Blocker - checks all scripts running under Windows Scripting Host and Web browsers. Boot Time Scanner - scans disks in the same way and in the same time as Windows CHKDSK does (on NT/2000/XP only). Explorer Scanner - right click on the object allows you to scan it. Screen Saver scanner - integrates with your Screen Saver to scan PC during your coffee breaks. Virus Chest - safety isolated folder to store infected, suspicious and even some system files - to restore them. Our true incremental updates are based on iAVS technology and they are available for virus definition file update and for program upgrade.
"You can download and install updates by simple clicking on the iAVS icon, it can be checked and done automatically when you are On-line, and by our exclusive PUSH technology. The update files of size under 100 KB are available at least twice a week and within couple of hours in the case of emergency of new virus. They are automatically downloaded and installed."
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